Whales were in dire straits in the 1960s, reduced to a shadow of their former glory by more than a century of overzealous hunting. Ancient mammals that had overseen Earth's oceans for 50 million years were at the brink of extinction

Now that it's official, we need to do something about it.
Thanks to a revolutionary new energy-extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," America is suddenly feeling a lot like the Beverly Hillbillies.

Turns out kale and broccoli have an interesting history.
In some circles, kale has become really, really popular. Once a little-known speciality crop, its meteoric rise is now the subject of national news segments.

They sound so easy.
After wading through this weekâEUR(TM)s stack of submissions, itâEUR(TM)s become clear that the days of Jif lemon (or Ribena in my case, weirdly) and a little caster sugar on a soggy pancake are long gone.